Book description
Joomla! is the free and easy way to create websites, and this book is written for absolute beginners who want to learn the basics and go beyond. Packed with helpful screenshots and crystal clear instructions.
- Create a Joomla! website in an hour with the help of easy-to-follow steps and screenshots.
- Go beyond a typical Joomla! site to make a website that meets your specific needs.
- Learn how to secure, administrate, and fill your site with content.
- Update to the popular Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide by Eric Tiggeler.
In Detail
Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web- sites that perfectly fit your needs.
Completely updated for Joomla! 2.5, this practical guide teaches you how to create professional, appealing and extendable websites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club website or build a personal blog site.
The Joomla! Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Completely updated from the first book, real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich websites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. This book thoroughly covers the concepts behind the software and creates a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do – it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of contents
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Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites
- 2. Installation: Getting Joomla Up and Running
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3. First Step: Getting to Know Joomla
- Making the switch—building websites the Joomla way
- Introducing frontend and backend: the Joomla interface
- The frontend: the website as the user sees it
- Time for action – tour the example site
- Taking control: administering your site in the backend
- Time for action – log in to the backend
- Getting your feet wet: start administering your site
- Time for action – publish your first article
- Time for action – add a module to the site
- Time for action – set Joomla preferences
- Summary
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4. Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour
- What you will be making
- Cleaning up: removing the sample data
- Time for action – deleting articles and categories
- Time for action – deleting menus
- Building your new site in three steps
- Step 1: customize the layout
- Time for action – preparing a new logo image
- Time for action – replace the header image
- Time for action – tweak the design details
- Have a go hero – explore layout settings
- Step 2: add content
- Time for action – create a News category
- Time for action – create an article
- Time for action – add a menu link
- Time for action – add uncategorized articles
- Time for action – adding items to the home page
- Step 3: add extras through extensions
- Time for action – create a contact
- Time for action – create a Contact Form menu link
- Time for action – create a message block
- Wrapping up: change site settings
- Time for action – change site configuration
- Summary
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5. Small Sites, Big Sites: Organizing your Content Effectively
- Building on the example site
- Grouping content: a crash course in site organization
- Time for action – create a future proof site map
- Creating categories and subcategories
- Time for action – create a category and subcategories
- Displaying main categories and subcategories on your site
- Time for action – create a link to point to a main category
- Refining your site structure
- Time for action – move content from one category to another
- Time for action – rename a category
- Building a site without using categories
- Summary
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6. Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles
- Articles, content pages, what's the difference?
- Creating and editing articles: beyond the basics
- Making your words look good: formatting article text
- Time for action – add styling to article text
- Adding images to articles
- Time for action – upload images
- Time for action – inserting and aligning images
- Time for action – enabling the Flash image uploader
- Changing the way the article displays
- Time for action – creating an intro text
- Time for action – using page breaks to split up an article
- Tweaking the details: changing article settings
- Archiving articles
- Time for action – creating a news archive
- Summary
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7. Welcoming your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
- Why do you need overview pages, anyway?
- Creating the perfect home: mastering home page layout
- Time for action – rearrange the layout of articles on the home page
- Time for action – show the most recent items first
- Time for action – creating a different home page
- Creating category overview pages
- The first type of overview page: creating Category Blog layouts
- Time for action – create a facebook using the Blog layout
- The second type of overview page: Lists
- Time for action – add a link to a Category List layout
- How are multi-level categories displayed in Lists?
- Summary
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8. Helping your Visitors Find What they Want: Managing Menus
- How many menus can you have?
- Creating user-friendly navigation—cleaning up the Main Menu
- Time for action – changing menu item order
- Time for action – creating a secondary menu item
- Time for action – creating a new, empty menu
- Time for action – moving hyperlinks to the new menu
- Time for action – telling Joomla where to display the menu
- Exploring menu module settings
- What types of menu links are available?
- Creating plain text links
- Time for action – creating text links
- Summary
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9. Opening up the Site: Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute
- What are the default user groups and their permissions?
- Enabling users to log in and contribute content
- Time for action – adding a user with frontend authoring permissions
- Time for action – put a Login Form on the home page
- Time for action – logging in as a frontend content contributor
- Time for action – reviewing and publishing submitted content
- Enabling self-registration—allowing visitors to register
- Time for action – register yourself and log in
- Time for action – hiding content for non-registered users
- Time for action – partially hiding content from non-registered users
- Creating custom-made user groups
- Time for action – create a user group
- Time for action – tell Joomla what the group can see
- Time for action – tell Joomla what the group can do
- Time for action – add users to the new group
- Summary
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10. Getting the Most out of your Site: Extending Joomla
- Extensions in all shapes and sizes
- Enhancing your site using core extensions
- Time for action – adding a Newsflash to the home page
- Time for action – add a series of contacts
- Enhancing your site using third-party extensions
- Time for action – downloading and installing an extension
- Time for action – putting the extension to work
- Time for action – create an image gallery
- Time for action – replace Joomla's default text editor
- Summary
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11. Creating an Attractive Design: Working with Templates
- This is what templates do
- And this is why templates are so much fun
- Changing the settings of the current template
- Time for action – changing the site color and layout options
- Changing to a different template
- Time for action – activating a different template
- Time for action – changing the logo and header image
- Applying Template Styles to individual pages
- Time for action – creating a Template Style for one specific page
- Downloading and installing a new template
- Time for action – downloading and activating a new template
- Time for action – place modules in new template positions
- Time for action – replace the logo file
- Time for action – adding a banner module
- Customizing a template: tweaking CSS styles
- Time for action – editing CSS on the fly using Firebug
- Time for action – removing the fixed footer text
- Backing up and restoring a customized template
- Creating your own template
- Summary
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12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic: Tips and Techniques
- Why do you need to accommodate for search engines?
- Optimizing articles for findability
- Time for action – adding a page heading to an article
- Configuring HTML page titles
- Time for action – setting the HTML page title
- Adding meaningful metadata
- Time for action – personalize the site metadata
- Use search engine friendly URLS
- Adding extra links to site content
- Time for action – add a list of links to popular articles
- Redirecting visitors to pages that have been moved
- Time for action – creating page redirects
- Getting to know more about your site traffic
- More SEO resources
- Summary
- A. Keeping the Site Secure
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B. Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 2, Installation: Getting Joomla Up and Running
- Chapter 3, First Step: Getting to Know Joomla
- Chapter 4, Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an Hour
- Chapter 5, Small Sites, Big Sites: Organizing your Content Effectively
- Chapter 6, Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles
- Chapter 7, Welcoming your Visitors: Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
- Chapter 8, Helping your Visitors Find What they Want: Managing Menus
- Chapter 9, Opening up the Site: Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute
- Chapter 10, Getting the Most out of your Site: Extending Joomla
- Chapter 11, Creating an Attractive Design: Working with Templates
- Chapter 12, Attracting Search Engine Traffic: Tips and Techniques
- Index
Product information
- Title: Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2012
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849517904
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